Events of Interest: Week of September 20-25, 2010
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. For more information, see our calendar on the right menu or click the links below.
Monday (Sept. 20)
- NASA Advisory Council (NAC) Education and Public Outreach Committee, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm CDT
Monday-Tuesday (Sept. 20-21)
- NAC Heliophysics subcommittee, Room 3H46, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
- Monday, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm EDT
- Tuesday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm EDT
Tuesday (Sept. 21)
- The Senate is slated to vote on a motion to bring up the FY2011 Department of Defense authorization act. At last report, the Senate leadership plans to attach the DREAM immigration reform act to the DOD bill and other measures also may be added. This is a procedural vote. Debate over the underlying bill and any other measures attached to it is expected to take some time. Congress Daily (subscription required) cites Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) as saying that final passage of the bill is not expected until after the November elections.
- NAC Exploration Committee, Glennan Conference Room, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, 1:00 – 6:30 pm EDT
Thursday (Sept. 23)
- Marshall Institute Seminar on Hosted Payloads, Reserve Officers Association, One Constitution Ave., N.E., 4th Floor, Washington DC, 8:15 am – 10:30 am
Thursday-Saturday (Sept. 23-25)
- Space Generation Congress, Prague, Czech Republic (in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress, which formally begins on Monday, Sept. 27)
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